Show all should boost for alfalfa experiment station do we need an alfalfa experiment station does the basin need such a station bad enough to have the legislature vote an appropriation of per year to sustain it are you going to show the legis latore that such money expended in this way will bring back to the state ten times its cost it spent judiciously what are some of 0 the things it can caa accomplish it can eliminate all varieties ot of alfalfa wherein the yield is fron from fifty to seventy live five per cent below the best yielding varieties it can by cross breed a new variety of alfalfa that might excel the yields ot of the best present varieties twenty five to fifty per cent when the basin produces seven million pounds of alfalfa seed annually a twenty five per cent saving or increase would add annually at ten cents per pound which the ten thousand dollar expenditure accomplished it could also by experiments covering the use of water determine the exact amount ot of moisture necessary for a maximum seed yield it could carry experiments over a period of five or ten years proving necessary data tor for fertilizing it would prove the advantages of ct various planting nods eliminating the poorer methods it would prove whether planting in rows with constant cultivation Is better than drilling as wheat 0 oi broad casting it would try all periods of crop log ing from first cutting to later cuttings and determine best methods tor for securing high yields it would standardize stand arize methods of curing and harvesting the crop of seed and eliminate thousands of hollars dollars ot of waste in seed it would determine the different methods of treating the different soils bolls here in the basin these are only a lew few suggest livo items that william peterson ot of the U A C 0 notes in a letter on the subject of 0 an alfalfa seed station think what would occur in in many other lines the county farm bureaus could correlate with them tham in a suggestive basin program adding much to iab usefulness and extensiveness extensive nesa the indian department at fort duchesne has on two former occasions been willing to lease lands tor for experimental work all ot of the indian farmers have always been in sympathy with such a move other interested parties would bu glad to furnish lands tree free it taxes and water assessments were only paid it would seem that the land would cost but very little living quarters comfortable and hanly must be built tor for the occupancy of the agronomist stationed there this need not be so very expensive william peterson of the U A C estimates that an appropriation of 0 seven thousand dollars would be sufficient to carry on the project for two years paying all expenses excepting the securing of 0 the land the fencing of the same and the building of the living quarters the location would have to be selected with great care and possibly the director of 0 the experiment station would have this to do S still till it might m ight be possible to select a piece of land with comfortable quarters already built the expense does not seem so great when figured through but the desire to put it over should be one hundred per cent strong dont you think you ought tu to send your influence to the state legislature gi by way ot of a letter to soma influential member whom you know remember you are living in the valley of vision just now and the basin is where right decisions count much |